The monster in us.

           

                         Monster story

                          Spencer Wright a3 11/20/10

            The monsters in literature that stick with us through the decades are not the ones that come purely from imagination. The monsters that we write about think about, and make movies about most are either the monsters that we create or the monsters we become. We are afraid of the part of ourselves that is most like the monsters we fear.
One example that supports this idea would be Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Is a monster we fear because he/she/it represents the part of ourselves that wants to fight what “society” tells us we need to be.

            There is a Mr. Hyde in all of us it just depends on how prominent we let it manifest itself. Man began to receive Mr. Hyde when it decided what is accepted and what is not. There is a Mr. Hyde in all of us; perhaps the great Sigmund Freud presented this theory best. His theory is that of super ego, ego, and id. When you are following your super ego you are complying only with the rules that you have been taught there is no way you are going to break that rule. When you are displaying an id personality you act on impulse and closer to the natural man. I feel like this goes along perfectly with what Mr. Hyde is because there is always id fighting the super ego within us. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fight with each other within the same body, wanting to be something different from what they may have been taught or made to believe.

            Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde represent the part of us that’s wants to do evil. We are afraid of that evil because it breaks the rules.  We learn to accept who we are and to except that part in others. We also learn how to control the evil in ourselves.

 We now fear the fight within someone so much we have classified it as an illness. We can only learn from it by accepting who they are. Just remember, there is a Mr. Hyde in all of us. We just have to know how to control it.

          

Frankenstein response

    Frankenstein response

                 Spencer Wright A3 11/16/10

I think that you should be more afraid of doctor Frankenstein many different reasons. The first reason is because it is scary that you can create that kind of life with a few dead body parts. You could virtually make and control whoever you want. You could make your own army of Frankenstein’s and control the world!!

Another reason that you Dr. Frankenstein are scary is his power to control someone’s emotions as he did. All the monster wanted was to have someone love him, but Dr. Frankenstein deprived him of that relationship. Being deprived of being loved sent him on a killing rampage and that is a power that no one should have.

Hero Short story

Hero Short Story

Spencer Wright A3 11/9/10

Ring! Ring! Ring! Kermit answered the phone. All of a sudden tears started to run down his face. That day Kermit’s friend Cal was supposed to fly in from California (Kermit lived in Brazil). The phone call was about how Kermit’s friend Cal was on the airplane on his way and the engine failed. No survivors had been found yet.

The problem is that just around the time Kermit got the phone call he was figuring out that he had super abilities like a frog. He could jump high, extend his tongue 2 Feet long and he had super keen eyes. Kermit started to practice using his frog like abilities to fight crime in Brazil.

Two weeks later…..

Ring! Ring! Ring! All of a sudden a huge grin came over Kermit’s face. Cal was alive! Cal and Kermit talked for a while and Kermit finally asked Cal how he made it out alive? Cal said he had super abilities just like Superman in the comics they used to read together! Kermit immediately flew to San Diego to fight crime together.  

And the town of San Diego live happily ever after.